How this Arkansas estimate works
Under Ark. Code §16-62-102, recoverable wrongful death damages are defined broadly: pecuniary injuries, loss of companionship, and mental anguish. Under Arkansas Constitution Article 5, §32, neither the economic nor the noneconomic portion is capped.
Arkansas distinguishes the family's wrongful death claim from the estate's separate survival action, which covers different claims the decedent personally held at death. This calculator estimates the wrongful death claim — the beneficiaries' own loss — not a survival claim.